This is an interesting question you raised and to be honest with you I have no idea. I have never been to a psychic and I don't know if I believe in them.
I do think it would be interesting to go to one just to see what they say and see if in the future that's what really happens but this could raise some problems....
First I think if the psychic predicted wrongly they would lose a lot of business. But here is the real problem what if you alter your choices because of what you were told. Some people may to everything in their power to make what the psychic said come true. While others might do the opposite and try to do everything they can to make what was said not come true.
Question:
How to we account for wrong psychic predictions??
Thursday, March 3, 2011
In response to Kim's question "Why do people, like myself, enjoy looking and reading things about the supernatural even if they do not believe?"
Although I don't have a good answer to this question I can give a couple possibilties but be warned they may come off as bias because I do believe in supernatural events.
One possibility might be because its just interesting. Maybe you find it interesting to come up with different ways as to how these pictures have come about.
Another possibility may be that you just want to prove to yourself that you really don't believe in the supernatural.
I really don't know there could be a variety of reasons but like I said those are just some possibilities.
My mother has a friend whose father owned a plane and he died in a plane crash trying to come get them in a nasty storm. After the funeral they had the little get together at the father's house and someone took a picture of his bedroom window. When they took the picture there wasn't anyone in the house and the person didn't see anything. But after the picture was developed in the window of the bedroom was a human figure...now for those of you non-believers you might say it was dust in the lens or something happened when it got developed, etc. Well just to finish the story they sent the picture away to be looked at and the people said it could be his ghost.
Although I haven't seen the picture I think it is awesome. I find anything with ghost very interesting and I think it would be cool to have an interaction with a ghost. But if I was to tell a non-believer than they would just say it's hearsay.
So here's my question (I also raised it in class)...
If we were to get more evidence and were able to scientifically prove some supernatural thing does that make it no longer supernatural....is it now part of the natural world??
One possibility might be because its just interesting. Maybe you find it interesting to come up with different ways as to how these pictures have come about.
Another possibility may be that you just want to prove to yourself that you really don't believe in the supernatural.
I really don't know there could be a variety of reasons but like I said those are just some possibilities.
My mother has a friend whose father owned a plane and he died in a plane crash trying to come get them in a nasty storm. After the funeral they had the little get together at the father's house and someone took a picture of his bedroom window. When they took the picture there wasn't anyone in the house and the person didn't see anything. But after the picture was developed in the window of the bedroom was a human figure...now for those of you non-believers you might say it was dust in the lens or something happened when it got developed, etc. Well just to finish the story they sent the picture away to be looked at and the people said it could be his ghost.
Although I haven't seen the picture I think it is awesome. I find anything with ghost very interesting and I think it would be cool to have an interaction with a ghost. But if I was to tell a non-believer than they would just say it's hearsay.
So here's my question (I also raised it in class)...
If we were to get more evidence and were able to scientifically prove some supernatural thing does that make it no longer supernatural....is it now part of the natural world??
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
So the saying goes....
So the saying goes what they don't know won't hurt them. This saying also reminds me of the question; if a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it does it make a sound? But I want to concentrate on the first saying for this blog entry.
In many ways I believe the saying is true...how can someone(s) be hurt by something if they don't know about it. I am sure all of us have at leeast one thing that we have kept from our parents because we were and maybe still are afraid of what their reaction would be along with the consequences. I know I fall into this category and many times when speaking to someone we can tell we either defend ourselves saying "what they don't know won't hurt them" or the person we are talking to tells us this. I am 99.9% positive that if my parents and others knew some of my secrets our relationship would be totally different and probably not in a better way. So yes sometimes I depend on this saying.
But what happens if they are suspicious and they start finding "clues" or hearing things and end up finding out your secret anyways then what? Honestly I don't know and I am afraid to find out because like I said above the reason for keeping something a secret in the first place was because of fear of the consequences. Personally I think that if they did find out it would hurt them and it would probably hurt them more than had they been told truthfully up front. It could also hurt the person keeping the secret even more because the consequences could be worse than what they would have been and it could ruin the relationship even more. So in this case what someone doesn't know could end up hurting them.
Question:
What do you think....does the saying, "what they don't know won't hurt them" hold true???
In many ways I believe the saying is true...how can someone(s) be hurt by something if they don't know about it. I am sure all of us have at leeast one thing that we have kept from our parents because we were and maybe still are afraid of what their reaction would be along with the consequences. I know I fall into this category and many times when speaking to someone we can tell we either defend ourselves saying "what they don't know won't hurt them" or the person we are talking to tells us this. I am 99.9% positive that if my parents and others knew some of my secrets our relationship would be totally different and probably not in a better way. So yes sometimes I depend on this saying.
But what happens if they are suspicious and they start finding "clues" or hearing things and end up finding out your secret anyways then what? Honestly I don't know and I am afraid to find out because like I said above the reason for keeping something a secret in the first place was because of fear of the consequences. Personally I think that if they did find out it would hurt them and it would probably hurt them more than had they been told truthfully up front. It could also hurt the person keeping the secret even more because the consequences could be worse than what they would have been and it could ruin the relationship even more. So in this case what someone doesn't know could end up hurting them.
Question:
What do you think....does the saying, "what they don't know won't hurt them" hold true???
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